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Just another WordPress weblogMon, 17 Jan 2011 03:25:19 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=Review of By-Election Candidate Websiteshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/designspike/~3/9rJYw64Ra1w/
http://designspike.ca/2011/01/review-of-by-election-candidate-websites/#commentsMon, 17 Jan 2011 03:25:19 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=345With just a few weeks left in the by-election for Alderman in Lethbridge, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the websites of the 10 declared candidates to look at how they compare, what they&#8217;re doing right and what could be improved. Campaign websites are critical tools in most elections these [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2011/01/getting-started-with-google-adwords/#commentsFri, 14 Jan 2011 14:00:37 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=338So you have a brand new website, but no traffic. What can you do? One way to start getting visitors right away is to invest in some advertising. When it comes to online advertising, you have a lot of options, but the big dog is definitely Google AdWords. What is Google AdWords? AdWords are the [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/06/wordpress-3-0-released/#commentsThu, 17 Jun 2010 23:51:02 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=308We&#8217;re big fans of WordPress so today is a big day for us. After many months of hard word, the WordPress team released version 3.0 today of the open source CMS, code-named “Thelonious”. Among the big new features: WordPress and WordPressMU have merged, so it&#8217;s now possible to run multiple sites from one install There&#8217;s [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/05/how-to-get-your-blog-off-the-ground/#commentsSun, 02 May 2010 18:04:20 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=299Photo by Kristina B Used correctly, a blog can be one of the most effective ways to promote your business online. Company focused blogs can be used to post information and news about your business to current and potential customers. Over time, blogs can also be a great source of search engine traffic. Anyone can [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/03/10-things-most-real-estate-agents-are-doing-wrong-with-their-websites-and-how-to-fix-them/#commentsThu, 25 Mar 2010 11:06:12 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=2961. Pushing keywords more than their message. It&#8217;s great showing up at the top of search engine rankings, but most people only use the web to research or confirm their decisions. No one will pick an agent only because their at the top of the search results. 2. Having a generic domain. Lethbridge-real-estate-agent-for-buyers.com may work [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/03/using-a-cdn-to-speed-up-your-website/#commentsThu, 11 Mar 2010 22:43:10 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=288Speeding up your website with a CDN is easier than you think using SimpleCDN. What&#8217;s a CDN CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. CDNs come in many forms, but the basic ideas is they will host your non-dynamic content (images, js, css) on an array of servers all over the world that are optimized for [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/01/5-google-services-you-should-be-using-with-your-website/#commentsThu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:53 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=2591. Google Analytics &#8211; See where your visitors are coming from, what they click on, how long they stay. 2. Google AdWords &#8211; Send targeted traffic to your site for pennies a click. When teamed up with Google Analytics, you can effectively track how much return you&#8217;re getting for those clicks. 3. Google Website Optimizer [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2010/01/tips-for-making-your-wordpress-site-more-secure/#commentsFri, 01 Jan 2010 23:38:34 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=254WordPress is a great CMS that&#8217;s not only good for running blogs, but small websites as well. Because it&#8217;s so popular, it&#8217;s become a favourite target for hackers. If you&#8217;re running WordPress, you&#8217;ll want to keep it secure. Here are a few tips to keep you out of harm&#8217;s way Tips Make sure you&#8217;re running [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2009/11/why-you-should-use-a-email-newsletter-service-instead-of-outlook-for-your-email-newsletter/#commentsWed, 11 Nov 2009 22:28:21 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=247We recommend all our clients have a regular newsletter. There are many benefits to doing this (read more about that here). Often the first question that comes up is why pay extra for a service when I can do this for free with Outlook? First an overview. There are email newsletters services and there are [...]<div class="feedflare">
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http://designspike.ca/2009/10/estimates-comparing-apples-to-apples/#commentsThu, 29 Oct 2009 15:07:43 +0000adminhttp://designspike.ca/?p=241We don&#8217;t get every job we bid on, but generally speaking we&#8217;re fairly successful at securing projects. When we lose a bid it hurts, but that&#8217;s life. Losing for us usually comes down to one of the following factors. We couldn&#8217;t do the project in the timeline required Our past work wasn&#8217;t suited to this [...]<div class="feedflare">
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